Archives, libraries, museums - I've spent 32 years working in them all.
I've never yet worked somewhere that we didn't have a "disaster." Toxic
fumes from swimming pool paint stored in the basement of a city
building, sewer gas leaks that nearly knocked staff unconscious,
sub-basement storm drains backing up and flooding collections storage
areas, floodwaters from local creeks that shut a major university
library down and ruined its entire serials collections, asbestos
contamination, mold and "sick building" syndrome, tornado scares and
theft and vandalism leaving the collections open to the elements -- and
more thieves and vandals. Then, of course, the run-of-the-mill trashcan
fires, bomb threats, and broken pipes. Naaahh, I wouldn't worry about
something as unlikely as a "disaster."

Ginny Steele, MA 
The Children's Hospital 
1056 E 19th AV  Box 080 Denver CO 80218 
303.860.4220 
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